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US Presidents and Personal Finance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I wonder if that could be part of our national debt problem. We toured Monticello in 2005 and learned that Thomas Jefferson, one of my favorite presidents died a pauper. He ended up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and only salvaged his estate by selling (after his death) his civil war memoirs.

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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

One of the most recent survey’s available reported: “Average expenditures per consumer unit1 for July 2014 through June 2015 were up 5.9 percent compared with the July 2013 through June 2014 midyear average, the U.S. personal saving rate bottomed out at around 1% in the third quarter of 2005.